If you are capable of healing your cards, through items, actions, or character abilities, and Beast, Tragic Hero has damage on them at the start of your turn, you can let them attack and then heal them, allowing you to still benefit from the increased strength but keeping them healthy enough to stick around
Compare this to Arceus ex and other meta cards that hit for more than 130-150 damage, and Garchomp ex doesn't seem quite as strong by comparison
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And so then I pull out this card, and I'm literally losing my mind
Across generations, Beartic has maintained a stable presence, appearing in subsequent titles like Pokmon X and Y and later in Pokmon Sword and Shield
Today Im taking on the black and red cards from the set, and seeing just how many stump me as I dig deep into the lore and mechanical backstory of approximately 100 individual cards